Michael Mayo: Abortion ultrasound bill shows Republican inconsistency

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May 3, 2010|By Michael Mayo, South Florida Sun-Sentinel

How is it that the same people who go around talking about the evils of "government intrusion" and the virtues of "limited government," the people who want "government out of our lives" and talk about "personal responsbility," are the same ones who go out and pass a law that says, "If you want to have an abortion, we're going to make you pay for an ultrasound first and fill out a lot of government-mandated paperwork?"

This is what I don't get about the conservative Republican Florida legislators who spent the final days of the just-concluded session pushing the new ultrasound bill (link here).

I mean, where's the consistency?

It smacks of government intrusion at its worst targeting women who are making traumatic and highly personal decisions. Guess the party of personal responsibility doesn't think much of personal responsibility if it goes against their belief system.

Thankfully, newly-independent governor Charlie Crist doesn't have to kowtow to the right-wing hypocrites in his former party.